Cubase 4.1: Cannot use ASIO at all

[soylent.green]

Hi planetz-community,

I crossgraded recently to cubase 4.1. I've tried to set it up with scope asio drivers, but none of my attempts was succesful. I'm able to select "scope asio" as audio system, but then there are no E/A-Connections shown. I've tried about every "Asio" thingy that scope offers in turn. Same result for each of them.

The only way it works halfways is to connect with the "ASIO Direct X Full Duplex Driver". Then again there are two strange things:
1.) Even if I have "24 Bit Wave Source/Dest" in my Scope Project, the "ASIO Direct X Full Duplex Driver Setup" program just displays two creamware entries with 16 bits only.
2.) I only get scope inputs and no outputs.

I'm confused. I hope someone can give me any sort of hint (apart from a "rtfm-hint". I do my best to read through this some-hundred-pages manual, believe me...

Peter

[soylent.green]

Hi Peter, it works with sx 3.1
For 4.1 some ASIO issues are reported with scope.

The only valid ASIO driver is ASIO scope.
The other is a steinberg all purpose with bad latency.

So... the only way to make it is try to launch cubase with the wav driver.
Then go to the configuration of vst (at least it was like this in 3.1) and select ASIO scope.

(hopefully) done

Hi stardust,

thank you for your reply.

I've allready selected asio scope in cubase, BUT that does not give me any IO-connections (s. 1st screenshot) whereas "ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver" gives me several IO-connections. So selecting ASIO works, but doing anything useful with zero IOs?

If I select the DirectX-Stuff on the other hand, cubes offers me only scope Inputs. There are no outputs (2nd screenshot).

[garyb]

there is a fix to this bug somewhere here. someone else found the problem with the cubase installer/reg entries. have you tried unistalling/reinstalling the scope driver?

[Tau]

soylent green, 3 ideas:

1. check out the I/O enabler app on Scope/app and confirm that wave drivers are loaded properly, as well as ASIO and MIDI, btw...

2. try different ASIO modules in sfp. For Cubase, I get best results using ASIO2-24 drivers

3. Always start ASIO Scope in Cubase at 44.100 KHz - other SRs won't work, only after it's loaded up you can change to a different SR.

In case everything fails, make a clean installation of Cubase, or even of sfp.

This V.4.1 has got me out of my head - it has so many nice features, but generally, it doesn't work that well. I'm using Live most of the time, and on my Scope DAW I have Reaper. I'm getting rid of Cubase as soon as I can.

Hope this helps, and best of luck (I hate it when people who could be spending their time making beautiful music have to bother with so many technicalities - Cubase has been my greatest time-eater yet).

Cheers,

T

[soylent.green]

Arghh, my brain hurt's! It has to come out!

I've just checked my scope settings. It was set to sync mode slave with no external sync source attached (my A16 was switched off by the time). After switching it to master mode and going back to cubase, voila, there they are my ASIO inputs/outputs. It's sooo easy sometimes.

Hope I haven't kept you from creating good music with my silly questions.

[Tau]

Hope I haven't kept you from creating good music with my silly questions.

Actually I meant your time, and of those who have to deal with badly-coded, highly hyped software But, since it's not a bug, I guess it counts as a learning experience!

Glad it's working!

[garyb]

[Herr Voigt]

Switching out the master in the digital chain will cause endless trouble in every time ... Most of us made such experiences, I guess.